With Fortinbras being a soldier he is more active than Hamlet in seeking his revenge immediately, but has respect for Hamlet and shows his by giving him a soldiers funeral. "Bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage". ... The audience can see that Hamlet is not naturally a soldier and finds the act of revenge a difficult task. ... "I"ll take the ghost's word for a thousand pound." ... Hamlet immediately asks the ghost whether he has come to scold him for not fulfilling the ghost's request. ...

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His father as a ghost caused Hamlet to change as a person in the play and this is very noticeable after the first appearance of the ghost. ... People don't know what to make of the ghost at first and what it really is. They think that it is ghost that is why they throw a spear at. ... The ghost told hamlet, -Mark me- (1.5.2), which meant to hamlet that he should listen to him and make sure that he looks him in the eye when he is talking to his father the Ghost. ... The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, Sword, ...

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ACT 1 SCENE 1 Characters: Ghost, Heratio, Marcellus. ... Heratio and the guardsmen inform Hamlet of the ghost they had saw the night before and Hamlet agrees to watch with them tonight in hope of talking to this ghost. ... The ghost finally appears and wants to Hamlet to follow it, Heratio and Marcellus urge him not to, but he is unsure whether the ghost is truly the ghost of his dead father, or if it was an evil spirit. ... The ghost wants Hamlet to avenge his death. ... Hamlet is dying and Fortinbras insists that Hamlet be carried away like a soldier. ...

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He was known as a coward, liar, rascal, and combat soldier, and of course a lecher, someone who is overly interested in the opposite sex ("Sir" 464). ... The last major character in the play is the Ghost of King Hamlet ("Sir" 438-439). In the play, Horatio is invited to discuss the ghost that has been appearing the past few nights. As Horatio refuses to believe, the ghost reappears and he sees the Prince of Denmark, which just died. ...

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When Hamlet was told of the ghost his instant response is to see the ghost. In act 1, scene 5 we discover, because of the ghost, that King Claudius murdered late King Hamlet. ... Later on in Act 3 scene 1 he is unsure of what the ghost represents "May be devil, and the devil hath power"( 554). ... Laertes is the son of Polonius and a soldier. ... If it were not for Hamlet contemplating whether or not the ghost was good or evil and when to kill Claudius, Hamlet would not have been five acts. ...

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The ghost of King Hamlet appears to tell Hamlet that his purpose is to get revenge on Claudius but to leave his mother alone "Against thy mother aught. ... Fortinbras recognizes that Hamlet was a hero "Bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage/For he was likely, he had been put on,/To have proved most royally." ...

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